My Makeup Stash Organised

For makeup addicts like me, there comes a point when our makeup stashes just grow to such overwhelming proportions that a good organiser is necessary to help us manage all of it and ensure that the countless products in our stash get rotated regularly in usage before they all expire into a sadly under-utilised mess. This is especially true for messy people like me who have a bad habit of leaving things lying around such that my table tops at home and in the office are often covered in a mountain of randomly assorted lipglosses and other makeup paraphernalia.

The most useful organiser that I've found to date is still this 6-drawer white plastic organiser from Muji. I bought my first one while I was living in Tokyo and recently, I've had to buy a second one as my makeup collection had grown again (unsurprisingly!) since I left Tokyo. Fortunately, I was able to find it at the Muji store in Paragon shopping centre in the heart of my city. It retails for 2940yen in Japan and S$49 in Singapore.

What I like about it is that the depth and width of the individual drawers, which each come with 3 separators, are just right for storing makeup products by brand or function and you never have to dig too deep to find what you need. Most palettes fit nicely inside these drawers. So, as can be seen from the pics, I have separate compartments for palettes from Lunasol, Awake, Jill Stuart, Majolica Majorca, Tarte, Chanel and MAC as well as a couple of compartments devoted to my MAC MSFs and Bobbi Brown Shimmerbricks. The organiser makes it very easy to find what I want at a glance and retrieve it quickly.






This green plastic case is the first makeup organiser that I got when I was starting to build up my collection. It's useful if you're just starting your makeup collection but it quickly became grossly inadequate, at the rate that I was accumulating stuff! Now, I use it to store random bits and bobs, like my Tarte Cheek Stains which are all in individual ziploc baggies because they 'sweat' and leak, especially in Singapore's hot and humid weather.

Any thoughts or comments, I'd love to hear them!